ML Work Orders™ Active Directory Integration

IMPORTANT!Because of the technical knowledge required, your district’s IT administrator (or someone with a similar role) will most likely need to perform the first two procedures.

ML Work Orders™ Software gives subscribers the option to import Active Directory users to automatically create user accounts inside ML Work Orders. Once the new account is created, the software then communicates directly with Active Directory to authenticate the user’s login request.

There are (3) simple one-time procedures that must be performed to integrate your district’s Active Directory users with ML Work Orders™ Software:

4. Optional: Select the Secure LDAP checkbox if your district wants to use LDAP over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for user authentication.

Important! If the Secure LDAP checkbox is selected, a certificate (.cer) file will need to be emailed to info@masterlibrary.com so that MasterLibrary Software can connect to your district’s Active Directory server. Until that certificate is provided and installed on the MasterLibrary server, you will not be able to proceed with this configuration.

Before your district’s connection settings can be saved, the connection must be tested to verify that the server exists and is connectable.

5. Enter any district Active Directory username and password in the corresponding fields.

The example string tells the Active Directory Import where to pull the users that should be created in the district’s MasterLibrary Software account. For example, if you only wanted teachers to be added, the filter would be set to only find district teachers.

Within the Active Directory database you can find the filter in any of the three highlighted areas.

5. Select if you would like the Filter to be an "Active" filter, that is used if running a nightly synchronization to Active Directory.

4. Select the View Users () button to display a list of all users that can be imported into your school's MasterLibrary Software account. Any users which can be imported will display a green sync icon

() Any users which can not be imported will display an attention icon (), with a reason as to why they can not be imported.